Friday - May 08, 2009

Travellers invade pitch just before Cricket season begins. Here we go again! killin’ is the answer.

As I have said on an occasion or two or three.  And of course quoting Al Capone.

You will get more done with a kind word and a gun, then you will with a kind word alone.
And I really do believe that to be true. Especially where these vermin are concerned. 

Hit em hard, hit em for keeps.
Pile up their bodies in heaps and heaps!

Once that’s done, this particular problem will go away.
In fact, any remaining should be deported.  If no other country will take them, then camps in some desert will do until there aren’t any more of their kind left.

Village cricket club in shock as travellers invade pitch just before season begins

By Beth Hale
Last updated at 1:59 PM on 08th May 2009

The pitch had been carefully tended, the wicket was in fine form and all was set for Roborough Cricket Club’s first home game of the season.

But that game was in jeopardy last night after some unwelcome pitch invaders took up residence near the boundary line.

Travellers arrived at the sports field, in Roborough, Devon, on Monday and set about making themselves at home.

This morning ten caravans were illegally parked up in a corner of the field - with perfect views for watching the game against a team from nearby Honiton, but not so perfect for players, who fear the match may have to be postponed.

Cricket club officials say the group of travellers have ruined the wicket, by driving up and down on quad bikes, leaving a trail of tyre marks.

Mike Gaylard, treasurer and groundsman for the club, discovered six caravans on the site at the beginning of the week, and with growing dismay watched as one by one more vans arrived.

Contemplating the damage to the all-important wicket yesterday during a urgent pre-game inspection he said: ‘It’s got even worse now, there are tyre marks over the wicket where they have obviously gone round in circles.’

He said he had seen children riding quad bikes up and down the pitch, while he said travellers happily drove their vans across the field.

‘I’m going to have to get the roller out now and see what can be done. It is all cost and expense to the club.’

He said he was concerned over the time it will take to evict the travellers.

‘We are law-abiding people who pay our taxes and we cannot do anything about it.’

(oh yes you could. see my solution above.)

It is not the first time there has been a pitch invasion, travellers have moved in several times in recent years, with field owners having to resort to a writ to evict them.

Mr Gaylard, who says the gates to the ground had been padlocked prior to the group’s arrival, was unimpressed with assurances that they only planned to stay until the weekend.

‘They just think they’ve got a God given right to be there,’ he said.

There was, however, one glimmer of hope. Mr Gaylard was hoping the police might take action because there had been damage to the wicket.

One of the travellers, Jane Lee, said they tried not to damage anything when they stayed somewhere.

She said: ‘We’re just passing through; it’s our way of life. It’s the only way you know when you’ve been brought up with it.’

Miss Lee, who said she’d lived in a caravan all her life, added that they would not get in the way of a cricket match.

The playing fields are owned by Bickleigh Parish Council.

Chairman Bill Hitchens said: ‘Quite understandably the cricket club are upset and I’m supporting them, but I can only move as fast as the law allows. We’ve taken it to the police but they are unwilling to take action.’

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“ it’s our way of life. “
Don’t ya just love that?  So the rest of the world has to put up with her and her kind just pulling up and staying for awhile. Sometimes for a VERY LONG WHILE!

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